Package magazine



Jan. 31, 1933. E, w, FARMER 1,895,616

PACKAGE MAGAZINE Filed Nov. 2, 1931 E.\M Farmer fitter-megs.

Patented Jan. 31, 1933 PATENT FFEQE EARL WESTON FARMEE, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MENN'ESO'IA, ASSIGNOE TO FAWGETT PUBLICATEONS, INQ, OI MINNEAPOLIS, b11151I lldlSO'lA PACKAGE MAGAZINE Application filed November 2, 1831.

My invention relates to package magazines. An object of the invention is to pro vide a magazine which comes to the purchaser in what looks like a box but which upon inspection will be found to be amaga zine with sealed covers within which is contained the body of the magazine secured at its back to the covers while along with the magazine, there may be articles of manufacture or materials retained within the boxlike covers until the package is opened. A carrving medium is thus provided for such things as blueprints, photost-ats, patterns, special advertising matter, photographs, phonograph records, materials of construction for small or toy articles, etc. which may be supplementary and germane to the nature of the magazine. When the package is unsealed, any such enclosed material is immediatel accessible, and upon tearing off sealing flaps with which the covers are provided, the purchaser has a magazine which is bound in covers in the nature of a book.

Another object of the invention is to provide novel means for binding or securing the covers and the pages of the magazine together, such means being of such character as to have a direct cooperation with the par ticular character of covers which are prvided.

The full objects and advantages of my in vention will appear in connection with the detailed description thereof, and the novel features of my inventive idea will be particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing which illus trates a practical embodiment of my invention, Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing the package magazine in sealed condition. Fig. 2 is a plan view on a reduced scale showing the covers fully opened and with the magazine pages secured and an article to be enclosed in place. Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing one of the covers in open position prior to sealing. Fig. 4 is a plan view showing an adhesive applied to the flaps prior to sealing. Fig. 5 is a view of the package in transverse section. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the magazine after the sealing flaps have been torn ofi.

Serial No. 572,519.

' As shown in the drawing, 1 provide a front cover member 10 and a rear cover member 12, these cover members being connected by a rear edge member 14, the Width of which is preferably somewhat greater than the thickness of the pa es 16 of the magazine for a purpose which will appear later. The cover members are preferably made of rather stilt material such as cardboard or boXboard. The front cover 10 and the rear cover 12 preferably join the rear edge member 14 in scored lines 18 and 20 respectively, whereby hinging movement of the covers 10 and 12 is provided. Two similar flap members 22 are carried by the top and bottom edges of the cover member 1:2, these flap members being provided with parallel scored lines 24 and 26 whereby top and bottom edge members 28 are provided which are substantially of the same width as the rear edge member 14. A flap member 30 is carried by the front edge of the cover member 12-, this flap member being provided with parallel scored lines 32 and 34: whereby a front edge member 36 is provided of the same width as the rear edge member 14:. It will be understood that the covers and attached flaps may be cut from the proper stock by means of dies or in any other suitable manner.

The pages 16 of the magazine may be of any desired number and material and are preferably produced by folding sheets of the arterial tog-ether along the middle thereof in well known manner. T ie pages, however. before being secured in the box covers are preferably secured together by a staple 38 set at the center of fold of the sheets. This may be done by placing the assembled sheets on a saddle along which the secured pages are adapted to slide. The staple 38 holds the pages together for trimming before they are placed in the box covers. The pages thus secured together and trimmed are then secured in the boX covers by two staples 40 set through the two end portions of the cover structure and sheets whereby the latter are firmly secured within the covers. As shown in Fig. 5, the staples 40 are set through the upper scored line 18 andthrough the line of fold of the sheets. Due to this manner of clusion thereof is not now allowable by the present method of manufacture of magaiines. lVit-h he parts in the position shown in Fig. 3, an adhesive A is brushed across the flaps 22 and as shown in Fig. rand the cover 10 is pr do :11 so that the magaiorm shown in Fig. 1 which zine assumes t it will be noted is drawn on a larger scale than the other figures. l i hon the magazines are stacked, the weight of superimposed magazines will hold tic covers 10 in place until the ELCllIGSiYGllElS set suliiciently for this purpose.

he advantages of my construction of package magazine over enclosing a complete magazine in a separate sealed box are obvious in view the foregoing dcsci ption. in my construction whatever attractive imp] i; is placed on the front cover is always visible and no duplicate thereof is required in order that it may ap 'iear when on sale. The back cover may be utilized for carrying any matter which it is not only desirable to have or:- hibited in connection with the package but which it is desirable to have permanently associated with the magazine. For instance, the back cover may carry an illustrated table of contents playing up the lead articles of the magazine in tabloid form. If features of this sort were placed on a separate box, the cost of dupli ation would be involved as well as for the features of the front cover. Furthermore, when the seal is broken after purchasing the magazine, the purchaser upon tearing off the flaps or tabs has a board-boun d magazine with the addition of whatever materials or articles are enclosed with t 1e magazine which material or articles cannot now with existing forms of magazine manufacture be carried with the magazine. Thus it will be seen that a magazine having the characteristics above set forth is gre tl broadened in the scope of magazine utility. My package magazine has important advantages from a sanitary point of view. Any one purchasing the sealed magazine does so with assurance t iat it has not previously been thumoed over by another person of unknown identity and who may be of slovenly habits addicted to tie thumb moistening habit or ailected with a contagious disease. The placing of the table of contents on the back cover is su'llicient to apprise the prospective purchaser of what he may expect to find in the magazine.

I claim:

1. A package magazine comprising a plurality of imprinted sheets forming the body of the magazine, cardboard covers to which the rear edges of said sheets are secured, said covers being deeper in fold than said body portion whereby space is provided for enclosing articles of manufacture along with the body of the magazine, and flaps attached tosaid covers along'scored lines, said flaps being-adapted to be sealed to produce a complete enclosure for the body of the magazine and said articles, and to be torn off on said scored lines LO release said articles, and to leave a bound magazine.

2. A package magazine comprising a plurality of imprinted sheets folded together along the middle thereof and forming the body of the magazine, a staple securing said slreets together at the center only of the fold, covers for said sheets, a back edge member to which said covers are hingedly attached, staples passing through the end portions of said back edge member and through the end portions of said fold, and flaps attached to said covers along scored lines, said flaps being adapted to be sealed to produce a complete enclosure for the body of the magazine and toy be torn off on said scored lines to leave a bound magazine.

3. A package magazine comprising a plurality of imprinted sheets folded together along the middle thereof and forming the body of the magazine, a staple securing said sheets together at the center only of the fold, covers for said sheets, a back edge member to which said covers are hingedly attached, staples passing through the end portions of said edge member at one of the hinges and through the end portions of said fold whereby space is provided for enclosing articles of manufacture along with the body of the magazine, and flaps attached to said covers along scored lines, said flaps being adapted to be sealed to produce a complete enclosure for the body of the magazine and said articles, and to be torn off on said scored lines to release said articles and to leave a bound magazine.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature.

EARL lVESTON FARMER. 

